Day: January 12, 2019

Dog Visits Enliven Nursing Home Patients Elizabeth Nelson By Elizabeth Nelson Proper greatergood_ctg_belowtitle Every Wednesday, six to nine dogs get their weekly bath so they’re fresh and ready for the best part of the week. On Thursday, they make the trip to Milesian Manor in Magherafelt, where they’ll make the day a little brighter for […]

Netflix’s Bandersnatch is one of the biggest instances of interactive fiction hitting the mainstream in the last few years. Players can decide how the story proceeds in big and small ways and might make some older viewers remember the heyday of the Choose Your Own Adventure genre of books. Those usually youth-oriented books would give […]

Scotty Pippen Jr., the son of NBA Hall of Famer Scottie Pippen, announced his commitment to Vanderbilt on Friday night. Pippen Jr. took an official visit to the Commodores’ campus earlier this month, and also had Washington State, San Francisco, Colorado State, UC Santa Barbara and Hofstra on his list. A 6-foot-1 point guard out […]

Image caption The waste was piled on top of containers at health centres in Coatbridge, Kilsyth and Cumbernauld Photographs showing bags of clinical waste piled at three health centres in North Lanarkshire have been posted on social media. The images – from Coatbridge, Kilsyth and Cumbernauld – showed bags of waste on top of large […]

Marketing actually relies really heavily on statistics. Companies do what’s called A/B testing, so they’ll run an ad campaign, measure the results, then change an aspect and run it again to see which worked better. There are bound to be many case studies on the rate of engagement on ads and billboards in New York […]

Gucci Releases a Celebratory Lunar New Year Collection Gucci’s Lunar New Year collection is one that mixes the high fashion label’s bespoke pattering with quirky, fable-inspired patches. The result is a strong juxtaposition between themes that just might prove to be incredibly stylish and popular. 2019 is the Year of the Pig and to reflect […]

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption One of the pardoned men, Walter Irvin, speaks to his lawyers during his retrial in 1952 Four black men who were wrongly accused of raping a white teenager in Florida 70 years ago have been pardoned. Officials voted unanimously to issue the pardon at a meeting in the state […]

I sat down with Game Informer’s Jeff Cork to see if we could recreate the battle royale experience on paper. This idea was originally an excuse we used to play Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 and Fortnite at work, but it eventually transformed into a functional game we believe parrots the experiences delivered on […]

Earlier this week, customs officials with the South African Revenue Service (SARS) intercepted a consignment of rhino horns worth over R23 million at the OR Tambo International Airport (ORTIA). The 36 pieces of rhino horn, weighing a total of 116kg, were found after a detector dog reacted positively to a consignment of so-called ‘decoration Items’ […]

The Bucks will be without Giannis Antetokounmpo for Friday night’s game against the Washington Wizards as the Milwaukee star battles a sore right quadriceps. Bucks forward Giannis Antetokounmpo sidestepped the MVP discussion following another dominant all-around effort Wednesday that saw him score 27 points and grab a career-high 21 rebounds in a win over James […]